A GOLD RUSH
NEAR BENDIGO. (Australian Press Association.) MELBOURNE, August 3. A couple of days ago Arthur Goto picked up a slug of gold weighing about,,twenty ounces, in a forest reserve ;.near Tarnagtiila, a neighbourhood that formerly was -famous for . the rich claims from which fortunes were won. .-Goltz.had been trapping opossums, and while making his .'way home, lie noticed the-gpld showing. A rush has now set in. Motor cars, lorries, and horse drawn vehicles, - each- -looded -with men armed witli picks and axes, are frantically making -for the scene, which is thirtytwo miiosi from Bendigo. Hundreds of acres of virgin ground are available.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 August 1930, Page 3
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104A GOLD RUSH Hokitika Guardian, 4 August 1930, Page 3
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